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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:49:26 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sfc: resolve tx multiqueue bug

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> With the recent changes to tx multiqueue, sfc was not calling
> netif_start_queue() before calling netif_wake_queue().
> This causes an oops when opening a device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/sfc/tx.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/tx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/tx.c
> index 5cdd082..798b06b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sfc/tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/tx.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ inline void efx_wake_queue(struct efx_nic *efx)
>  	if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&efx->netif_stop_count,
>  				&efx->netif_stop_lock)) {
>  		EFX_TRACE(efx, "waking TX queue\n");
> +		netif_start_queue(efx->net_dev);
>  		netif_wake_queue(efx->net_dev);
>  		spin_unlock(&efx->netif_stop_lock);
>  	}

Ahem... ignore this, it's obviously not right.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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